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remainder of tlic l)uil(ling. For these reasons, we need to exercise great 

 care in tlie treatment of the " finishings " of a huilcUng. 



Because a l>uilding is in kee])ing in the city, it does not follow that 

 it would be in keeping in the countr}-. The building should fit the place 

 and the purpose. It should seem to belong just where it stands. It 

 should not seem to be transplanted to the country. The traveller often 

 wonders why the simple and unpretentious peasant cottages in Euroge 

 are so interesting. The reason is just because they are simple and un- 

 pretentious, and therefore individual. They seem to have grown up 



Pig. 280. — Of no architectural pretension, but attractiv? because of its picturesqueness 

 and the fact that it is adapted to its purpose. 



out of the land and to be a product of it, expressing merely the neces- 

 sities of tlie l)uiMer. They were Imilt slowly right where the)- stand, 

 not carted in bodily from the mill and then set up. It is too bad that 

 in Xew York State, a land of stones and rocks, there are not more stone 

 buildings. Unfortunately, stone buildings are expensive because of the 

 great cost of masons' wages and the difficulty of securing masons in the 

 country who can lay a good rough untrimmcd wall ; yet we ought to be 

 developing a class of young farn^ers wdio themselves can utilize the native 

 materials of their region. 



One finds certain types of houses and barns peculiar to great geo- 

 graphical regions or to people of a certain descent. In parts of New 



